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Don’t Settle for Incomplete Streets!

Some people are asking why we need complete streets. Let’s turn this question on its head: Why would we ever put in place designs, approval processes and funding streams dedicated to making our streets INcomplete?

What possible rationale could anyone suggest with a straight face for designing streets that make it difficult to get to a bus stop, unsafe for a cyclist to share a lane with a driver, treacherous for truck drivers trying to make a delivery to a grocery store, impossible for someone in a wheelchair to travel a few blocks on the sidewalk instead of in the vehicle travel lane?

That’s what we did, though. We have spent decades designing systems that are really great for people in cars and really bad for people who aren’t in cars.

Complete streets aredesigned and operated to enable safe access for all users. That’s all. When you have complete streets pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities can move safely along and across the street.

Who wants to keep property values down by leaving streets and sidewalks unfinished and unpleasant for all users, instead of adding the connections that increase curb appeal and property values as well as usability for everyone?

Who wants everyone to drive a single-occupancy vehicle and increase wear and tear on the streets because we’ve made it too scary to ride a bike, too muddy or impossible to get to a bus stop because there are no sidewalks, too unthinkable to walk a mile?

Who wants to keep building a system that ensures that people who can’t or shouldn’t drive–the young, the very elderly, people with certain disabilities, people without a car or a driver’s license or insurance–have no other way to get to school, work, the grocery store, or a doctor?

Hey, that’s it—let’s put more cars on the street to create more traffic jams and competition for parking spots and air emissions—especially air emissions because we really want to go back to the old days of being a non-attainment area under EPA regulations.

A really radical notion: streets for everyone, from the drivers of delivery trucks and semis to someone in a wheelchair, from your 8-year-old neighbor kid to your 88-year-old grandma.